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Item 29005

W.G. Webber Drugstore Trade card, Bath, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

Item 29004

W.G. Webber Drugstore Trade Card, Bath, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

Item 15757

Ingalls Brothers trade card, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, trade card

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Online Exhibits

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Waterville City Hall during the centennial celebration, 1902

"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911

Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.

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Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Exhibit

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"Worster House card, Hallowell, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Since 1832, this hotel served the public."

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Ice Cutting, Lake Hebron, Monson, ca. 1900

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"If people wanted ice, they would put a card in the window showing how much ice they wanted. Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block."